Paris to Zurich Train

This TGV-Lycra train journey from Paris (Gare de Lyon) Zurich is one of the most beautiful in the world. You can expect deep blue lakes, gorgeous green hills and a shimmering blue sky. That is if you visit in summer! A winter trip would provide equally beautiful ice and snow covered scenery. The trip takes approximately 4.5hrs, passing though Basel at about the 3hr mark. 

Of course, train travel through mountainous countryside would be incomplete without a fair share of tunnels carved through the rock- however the view is all the more fabulous when emerging from a dark tube. 

The trip would not have been done in a true Heli style if i had not got lost (and nearly missed my train...) in the Gare de Lyon station. There were large amounts of construction works, meaning the only toilets were about a 15 minute walk away from my platform! 5 minutes before my train was due to depart, I gave up searching and unwillingly used the trains services.

This route can easily be combined with other destinations (while interrailing, for example). I took the Eurostar from London to Paris, then this route. From Zurich  I continued on to my final destination of Venice, Italy. You can find further information on how to travel this beautiful route here.